Greg Menke
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2004
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
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Probably amateurs I've seen relieving lathes (Reinecker, I think ?) in operation, they run faster than you would expect. Not 1,000 rpm but still, pretty quick. And noisy !There are a couple youtube vids of lathe relieving attachments operating, generally quite low spindle rpm- though I guess the # of lobes matters a lot.
While you're working on the lathe its well worth taking the quill and screw out of the tailstock for some cleaning too- a nice thrust bearing inside and oil passages to clean where the screw journal runs, mine has a ball oiler just in front of the handwheel.
I'm toying with a DIY ER32 through coolant system for the tailstock- for rough/deep drilling mostly. I left the MT3 arbor with an 8-32 hole which I didn't plug with a setscrew so the tailstock assy gets flushed with cutting oil along with the tooling. Washed a fair bit of dirt out, the split cotter assy was particularly dirty. The downside is the MT ends up thoroughly lubricated so quill and tooling need cleaning afterwards.
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